Novel Quotes

• I write all of my novels and stories, as you have seen, in a great surge of delightful passion. Only recently, glancing at the novel, I realized that Montag is named after a paper manufacturing company. And Faber, of course, is a maker of pencils! What a sly thing my subconscious was, to name them thus. And not tell me!

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Passion
  • Subconscious

• Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • People
  • Intelligent
  • Novel

• Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Writing
  • Kind
  • Surfing

• The idea of the writer who writes nineteen novels, with various ups and downs and levels of experimentation, isn't around so much now. There's a focus, I think, on fewer books, with more pressure on each book to succeed. With that there comes, I think, a certain pressure towards shapeliness in fiction. Towards neatness. And I think writers feel that, and it can effect how they write.

  

  Chad Harbach
  • Book
  • Focus
  • Succeed

• When you work on a graphic novel or a film with people you've been together through a lot and you've exposed your secrets and weaker sides to each other.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • People
  • Together
  • Film

• I don't think the 'what' distinguishes a good novel from a bad one but rather the 'how.'

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Novel

• We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put the novel off.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Money
  • Novel
  • Counts

• Mostly the subject of the photograph, which can be anyone really, coming down the street - someone that has no idea. Heroism in photography, just like in a novel, is for everyone.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Photograph
  • Subject
  • Heroism

• All my writing-life people kept telling me that I should stop writing short stories and start writing novels: my agent, my Israeli publisher, my foreign ones, my bank manager - they all felt and keep feeling that I'm doing something wrong here.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Feelings
  • Stories
  • Should

• The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Hours
  • Shots
  • Organized

• There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Focus
  • Childhood
  • Novel

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